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| Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:30 | |||
 Christmas came early for more than 1,600 children at two government schools as the Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Beaches Resorts International, treated students for the holidays. The Sandals Foundation team from Beaches Turks and Caicos visited newly-adopted Clement Howell High School and the Enid Capron Primary School, bringing plenty of gifts and goodies to hundreds of students. The mid-week festivities offered an array of delicious food and drink and saw a large crowd, which included 1,053 students and 68 teachers from Clement Howell, the largest high school in Turks and Caicos Islands and another 503 students at Enid Capron Primary School. The Sandals Foundation worked for months collaborating with travel partners to collect hundreds of toys for the annual Holiday Toy Drive. In addition to the donated toys, the foundation also made a generous donation by purchasing additional toys to ensure that every student of the sponsored schools received a Christmas gift. “It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to bring smiles to the faces of so many children this Christmas,” said Elanor Finfin, public relations manager of Beaches Turks and Caicos. “Not only were we able to bring a fun-filled Christmas party and holiday treats to students of our sponsored schools, but we are also able to ensure that every student received a gift courtesy of Sandals Foundation.” “On behalf of the faculty and students of Clement Howell High we would like to thank the Sandals Foundation for creating a remarkable academic year for our school,” said Lloyd Fearon, principal of Clement Howell High. “For the first time in our school’s history we were able to treat the entire student body to a Christmas party inclusive of gifts.” In addition to the Christmas festivities, the Sandals Foundation also hosted a Teachers Appreciation Christmas Dinner at the resort’s grand ball room. At the dinner Sandals Foundation representatives outlined new initiatives for the upcoming 2011 school year while highlighting the progress made since the adoption. According to Fearon, this is the first time that teachers and the entire administration team and school’s security department have been treated to such a Christmas Appreciation dinner. The Sandals Foundation has already drafted a 12-month curriculum aimed at enhancing both sponsored schools. The projects on the foundation’s agenda are to establish a sick bay at both schools and provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training for teachers. Other benefits will include fundraising for the commencement of the highly-anticipated library building project and also the implementation of a breakfast feeding program for under privileged students.
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